Hi all!

Be prepared, a new release is approaching!

New features coming soon:
- terrain skin texture painting, saving/loading, and other manipulations using the terraintex.fx (ffe using alpha blending and tiling). it is accessible for free and extra users too! (ready)
- skin and texture manipulations for 1 skin + detail map terrains with a nice texture set (in development)
- mass placement of selected entities, in different, category specific quantities: grass sprites (10000 pcs), grass models (10000 pcs), shrubs (1000 pcs), obstacle models (100 pcs). the area is the full terrain or the game area, only over water i.e. when z>0 (ready)
- progress bars on loading, to see that MB is working behind (ready),
- new mouse pointer (ready)
- tile snapping for shrubs (ready),
- terrain decomposition for game AI (requires longer loading, so disabled by default), which is used by the built-in testable RTS group pathfinder (tile based hierarchical pathfinding). (ready)
- customizing wmb compilation options (I try to not to forget it to make...)

As you could see, I created a youtube channel for MapBuilder Tutorials and another for the pathfinder in development.

I'm upgrading soon to commercial, then I will definitely add in near future multitexture terrain shader support using rgb blendmap, and also some other shaders to be used at design time.

Any idea welcome

hey nice....honorable work...espacially when you have to share your sparetime with another focus:)

I will test the new version.

yes, children are at the place number 1), and I can get some time only from my worktime, but it is a secret! (what is building industry related, and it is in a big-big trouble here, so I have a bit more time than some years ago)

I would like to check this out ,do you stil have a free version up

yes atm everything is free, the only thing I do not plan to share freely is the pathfinding + game AI source codes (but the latter ones are in early stage of development). but maybe they will never be shared at all, only I will use them, because really game specific...

MapBuilder version 1.16.2 is finally out now! It's free, but donations are welcome

Please check my homepage for downloading. It is now only one rar file, both A7 and A8 compilations are included, together with a lot of samples.

New features are what I mentioned earlier, plus entity seeding got a simple panel for quantity settings, and entity placement is now done by left click or by holding down left button for continuous placement.

You can check my new pathfinder demo by pressing CTRL+T if a level is fully loaded, and when mouse pointer is somewhere in the middle of the game area (you can check game area and how it is subdivided into clusters and tiles by SHIFT+F10). It places 120 units in 4 groups. Select group by left click, move to position by right click. Other help info is displayed.

Moreover, if you hold down ALT for a few seconds when you start to load a full map, further terrain decomposition is processed, which is needed for proper working of the above mentioned new pathfinder demo.

hi sivan,

thanks

I get an App-crash.

Start Mapbuilder > construct terrain > Terrain modification > Edit Textures > try to paint (wich doesnt show any result) > click on "File" > message appears "Updating please wait" >> crash ....app needs to close

thanks a lot, I'll check that soon!

the A7 compilation or running from SED is fine for me, but I'll test it at home too where I can access A8 (I had no enough time for testing in A8).

the only thing that can result in unexpected errors is a too long installation folder name (>128).

hi,
I tried the same in A8 and it works for me, independently from texture format. does the same happens for every terrain files?